Re: [Plib-users] Onboard Sound Support?

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

David Scott Hamilton Giraud wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to get sound in FlightGear but it has been unsuccessful so 
> far.  Knowing that it uses plib for its sound, I've come to list.  Does 
> plib support onboard sound?  I have an SiS 651 motherboard.  Everything 
> else works fine with sound... XMMS, Ogle...  When I "cat /bin/ls > 
> /dev/audio" I hear static...  How do I get sound to work with FlightGear?

PLIB doesn't drive the sound chip directly - it uses some underlying driver.

Under Linux, that's /dev/dsp - under some other UNIX varients, it's /dev/audio

Have you tried the simple example program that comes with the PLIB examples?

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